TY - JOUR AU - Ebert, Christian AU - Ebert, Cornelia AU - Hörnig, Robin PY - 2020/09/17 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Demonstratives as dimension shifters JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 24 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2020.v24i1.859 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/859 SP - 161-178 AB - <p>Drawing on earlier work by Ebert and Ebert (2014), we argue that co-speech gestures contribute non-at-issue information by default (cf. Schlenker, 2018), flesh out their proposal that gestural content can be shifted via demonstratives (i.e. demonstratives function as dimension shifters from the non-at-issue to the at-issue dimension), and present experimental validation for this claim.</p> ER -